They came to provoke us.

What evidence did the Gansu police use to prove that the mass incident was related to the junior high school student's posts? Jiujiu Yide ( 久久一得) was very angry

We remained silent in fear of provoking his actions.

He was always trying to provoke an argument.

It seems like you're trying to provoke a fight.

The purpose is to push the main theme and trigger feelings.

Does he want to provoke a new outbreak of violence?

Do you want to cause a new outbreak of violence?

As in Iraq, the conflict could provoke large scale bloodletting.

Conservatives want not only to silence the reformers, but to provoke confrontation.

Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, for example, has repeatedly sought to provoke Greece into leaving the eurozone.

The military police's intention was to provoke and divide the demonstration in two for greater control.

Content that exhibits excessive terror, violence or evil behavior that could induce criminal acts

Overlapping spheres of influence and frozen conflicts could again cause major conflict.

The response of father and son has been to incite violence against foreigners.

This could trigger a vicious circle of mounting debt and uncontrollable inflation, with devastating consequences.

But phrases like yes, we wanted to incite violence never pleased them.

The party s leaders know that any crisis in Lebanon could provoke a Sunni Shiite conflict.

Now if you can trigger the Lazarus reflex in a dead person, why not the orgasm reflex?

The Chinese soldiers allegedly assumed firing positions, leading the Indians to withdraw in order not to provoke a shooting match.

China s aim is to needle India and possibly to push the Line of Actual Control southward.

In no way do we mean to offend the Ukrainian speaking fans of the brand or provoke a conflict.

I assumed that I was supposed to be provoked into unguarded comments, a method that fashionable TV journalists everywhere use nowadays.

In the short run, excessively low prices could trigger political instability in some oil producing countries, driving up prices.

Populist rabble rousers like to stir up such resentments by ranting about foreigners who work for a pittance or not at all.

But if the Fed goes that route, it needs to say clearly that it is deliberately risking an inflation overshoot.

The last attempt of part of the protesters to initiate violence was prevented by group of female activists, who stood between them and the police.

It is enough to mention the words Vatican and bank in the same sentence to start a cascade of jokes about comic opera ineptness and skullduggery.

Elections in the absence of constitutional and cultural constraints can produce violence, as in Bosnia or the Palestinian Authority.

The tests in the Hadron Collider may trigger this change, every bit as disruptive as an explosion.

Several European countries now seem content to force Greece into an outright default and provoke its exit from the euro.

Just as a breeze can awaken the senses, a simple sheet of paper made by hand can do the same.

The government dismissed the idea of banning Black Pete, but said it would promote a discussion, however uncomfortable, about racism.

There are still people who use sectarian jokes that might provoke discord in society and hatred among the people.

Nevertheless, wary of provoking widespread hostility, military leaders have indicated recently that they have no intention of intervening in politics.

Moreover, many Socialists fear that excessive public spending may trigger inflation, and that their core constituencies will become its first victims.

They went to the Osh bazaar with an intention to become embroiled in controversy so that everyone talks about them... isn't it obvious?.. they have accomplished the goal...

With tensions much higher today, however, such acts even if carried out by unknown or unofficial groups can trigger war.

Both are volatile democracies where any political question can provoke not just intense debate, but also the threat of violence.

Elections in the absence of constitutional and cultural constraints can produce violence, as in Bosnia or the Palestinian Authority.

They could provoke confrontations, directed not only against me, but also against their own leaders who had signed the Roundtable agreements.

Turkey is a NATO member, and any violation of its territorial integrity could easily trigger the North Atlantic Treaty s mutual defense clause.

Or the US Federal Reserve could spark financial contagion by exiting zero rates sooner and faster than markets expect.

wildebees If a UK political party's youth wing got this amount of debate going on Twitter they'd be hailed as pure genius DASO

That could easily trigger a return to the much feared competitive depreciations that contributed to the Great Depression.